Twenty-Something

Cat-Scratch wrote:The American comics market is a funny one. It was huge and has done nothing but collapse for the last 60+ years into a cottage industry that's dying.

In the 40s, they had a ton of genres. Nothing like what Japan has today, but still they had stuff that's now gone.

In Japan, you can find business comics. Seriously there are comics that only concern being a business man. House wife ones too. Add to that that some veer off into silly si-fi stuff as with Business Commando Yamazaki (for an example), a comic about a business man turned cyborg who trouble shoots for business men in need. They also have food comics that cover baking bread, noodles.. etc. Then there are the game ones. TONS of ones concerning playing Mahjhong or GO or Shogi... there is nothing here like that.

Every comic company that popped up since 1978 that has died since, nearly all of them, all died for the same reasons in the end. Bad pricing and money management. Marvel was saved by Disney. DC saved by Time Warner. But the rest... tick tock.

Marvel and DC don't really give a shit. It's money. As we're seeing now, the merchandizing is the mint for these characters, not the comics.So they don't give a shit.

That makes me feel so sad. I love comics and I hate to see the industry barely surviving.

Twenty-Something

Cat-Scratch wrote:The American comics market is a funny one. It was huge and has done nothing but collapse for the last 60+ years into a cottage industry that's dying.

In the 40s, they had a ton of genres. Nothing like what Japan has today, but still they had stuff that's now gone.

In Japan, you can find business comics. Seriously there are comics that only concern being a business man. House wife ones too. Add to that that some veer off into silly si-fi stuff as with Business Commando Yamazaki (for an example), a comic about a business man turned cyborg who trouble shoots for business men in need. They also have food comics that cover baking bread, noodles.. etc. Then there are the game ones. TONS of ones concerning playing Mahjhong or GO or Shogi... there is nothing here like that.

Every comic company that popped up since 1978 that has died since, nearly all of them, all died for the same reasons in the end. Bad pricing and money management. Marvel was saved by Disney. DC saved by Time Warner. But the rest... tick tock.

Marvel and DC don't really give a shit. It's money. As we're seeing now, the merchandizing is the mint for these characters, not the comics.So they don't give a shit.

That makes me feel so sad. I love comics and I hate to see the industry barely surviving.

The Old Doctor

by The Old Doctor » Sun Nov 03, 2013 6:59 pm

Arion wrote:That makes me feel so sad. I love comics and I hate to see the industry barely surviving.

The industry did it all on it's own. Digital could help but really, they need to smarten up a lot on a ton of issues.

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The December issue of Shogakuan's Monthly Heros Magazine announced on Friday that manga creator Kazuasa Sumita (Witchblade Takeru) will begin serializing a new manga in the magazine's January issue, which is scheduled to ship in Japan on November 30. Sumita will provide the art for the manga, while manga creator Shinya Murata wrote the original story.

The December issue of Shogakuan's Monthly Heros Magazine announced on Friday that manga creator Kazuasa Sumita (Witchblade Takeru) will begin serializing a new manga in the magazine's January issue, which is scheduled to ship in Japan on November 30. Sumita will provide the art for the manga, while manga creator Shinya Murata wrote the original story.

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Kazuto Takita, a former laborer at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, debuted a manga series about his experiences in the 48th issue of Kodansha's Morning magazine on Thursday. The manga also debuted on the same day in Kodansha's digital magazine D Morning.

The manga Ryūta is writing is titled 1F: Fukushima Daiichi Genshiryoku Hatsudenjo Rōdōki (1F: Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Work Log). The 1F in the title stands for the numerical designation for the Fukushima plant. After the earlier "1F" one-shot was published on October 3 and caused a huge stir among the public, the decision was quickly made to turn the story into a full series.

Kazuto Takita, a former laborer at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, debuted a manga series about his experiences in the 48th issue of Kodansha's Morning magazine on Thursday. The manga also debuted on the same day in Kodansha's digital magazine D Morning.

The manga Ryūta is writing is titled 1F: Fukushima Daiichi Genshiryoku Hatsudenjo Rōdōki (1F: Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Work Log). The 1F in the title stands for the numerical designation for the Fukushima plant. After the earlier "1F" one-shot was published on October 3 and caused a huge stir among the public, the decision was quickly made to turn the story into a full series.

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Video distribution website Hulu is currently streaming the first six episodes of TMS Entertainment's God Mars television anime series with English subtitles. The 64-episode series based on Mitsuteru Yokoyama's (Tetsujin 28/Gigantor) manga originally aired in Japan in 1981-1982. Hulu's release marks the first English release of the series in North America.

The series centers on Mars, who was sent as a baby to Earth with the eventual goal of destroying it. However, after being adopted by a Japanese family and given the name Takeru, Mars grows up experiencing the beauty of the planet and its inhabitants, and he questions his mission. Mars uses the powerful robot God Mars to protect the Earth from his people, even being forced to fight his own brother.

Video distribution website Hulu is currently streaming the first six episodes of TMS Entertainment's God Mars television anime series with English subtitles. The 64-episode series based on Mitsuteru Yokoyama's (Tetsujin 28/Gigantor) manga originally aired in Japan in 1981-1982. Hulu's release marks the first English release of the series in North America.

The series centers on Mars, who was sent as a baby to Earth with the eventual goal of destroying it. However, after being adopted by a Japanese family and given the name Takeru, Mars grows up experiencing the beauty of the planet and its inhabitants, and he questions his mission. Mars uses the powerful robot God Mars to protect the Earth from his people, even being forced to fight his own brother.